Surgical support



DeC- 19, 1961 4N. R` NELKIN 3,013,561

SURGICAL SUPPORT 'Filed Feb. 29, 1960 United States Patent 3,013,561SURGICAL SUPPORT Nedwyn R. Neikin, Overland Park, Kans., assigner toHJG. Enterprises, Kansas City, M0., a partnership consisting of HenryG., Ann R., Cecil, Nedwyn R., and

Edna Neliiin, and Eugene and Elaine Goldstein Filed Feb. 29, 1960, Ser.No. 11,909 3 Claims. (Cl. 12S- 520) This invention relates to a surgicalsupport and more particularly to a belt adapted to be worn by women,which belt simultaneously gives support to the back and abdomen of thewearer.

It is the most important object of this invention to provide a surgicalsupport in the nature of a body encircling belt, which belt has a padintermediate the ends thereof and a panel section integral with the beltand disposed oppositely to the pad when the belt is in place upon thewearers body whereby the pad will give support to the back of the wearerand the panel section will give support to the abdomen of the wearer.

A yet further object of this invention is to provide a surgical supportin the nature of a body encircling belt having a pad and a panelsection, there being elastic stretches interconnecting that portion ofthe belt carrying the pad and the panel section of the belt when thelatter v is in position upon the wearers body.

A yet further aim of the present invention is to provide a surgicalsupport for women in the nature of a body encircling belt, which beltnot only supports the back and abdomen of the wearer but which also hasstretches of elastic material forming a part of the belt which serve torrnly position the belt upon the body of the wearer.

Other objects of the present invention include the manner in which theportions of the surgical support are interconnected to form a bodyencircling belt; the manner and position in which stays are carried bythe belt to give additional support to the wearer and other details ofconstruction which will become apparent from the following specificationand accompanying drawing wherein:

FIGURE 1 is a laid out, plan View of a portion of the surgical support,parts being broken away to reveal details of construction;

FG. 1A is a laid out, plan view of the remaining portion of the surgicalsupport, parts being broken away to reveal details of construction;

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken on line 2-2 of FIG. l; and

FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken on line 3--3 of FIG. 1A.

The surgical support comprises a body encircling belt 10, which belt 10has a non-extensible section 12, a pair of elastic stretches 14 and 16and a non-extensible panel 18 disposed between said elastic stretches 14and 16.

The non-extensible section 12, as best seen in FIG. 1A, is comprised ofa length of material such as cotton or the like and has disposedcentrally thereof a iiexible pad 20 which is encased in a suitablematerial 22 such as tricot, which material overlies the edges ofilexible pad 20 and is secured to non-extensible section 12 by stitchingor the like as at 24 in FIG. 3. Pad 20 is elliptical in conguration andextends substantially the full width of non-extensible section 12, saidpad 20 being adapted and intended to engage the lower portion of theback of the wearer when body encircling belt 10 is placed on the wearer.The face of non-extensible section 12 opposite to that to which pad 20is secured is provided with a plurality of pockets 26, which pockets 26are disposed at opposite ends of section 12 and receive stays 28 of asemirigid material, said pockets 26 and stays 28 being substantiallyco-extensive in width with non-extensible section 12.

Patented Dec. v19, 1961 The free end of section 12 is provided with tworows of eyes 30 whereby the belt 10 may be secured in body encirclingrelationship to the wearer. The end of section 12 opposite to thatcarrying eyes 30 has secured thereto elastic stretch 16, which sctretch16 serves to interconnect at all times section 12 with panel 18. Elasticstretch 16 is substantially the same width as section 12 but of a lesserwidth than panel 18. Stretch 16 is secured to section 12 by a line ofstitching as at 32 and to panel 18 by a similar line of stitching as at34.

Panel 18 is of greater width than the remainder of belt 10 and ispreferably of the coniiguration shown in FIG. 1. A pair of pockets 36and 38 are formed at the opposite ends of panel 18 and are inclined insuch a man-` ner as to be substantially parallel with the outermost endedges 40 and 42 of panel 18. Pockets 36 and 38, which are formedby'securing an additional piece of material to one face of panel 18,receive stays 44 and 46 respectivel of a semirigid material. n

Spaced from pockets 36. and 38 respectively and in. clined oppositelythereto are double pockets 48 and 50,

each of said pockets being formed by overlying an additional piece ofmaterial to one face of panel 18, Veach of pockets 48 and 50 beingadapted to receive a pair of stays 52 and 54 respectively. Stays 52 and54, like stays 44 and 46, substantially traverse the width of panel 18and as a result of said stays being inclined and disposed relative toone another in the manner above described sufcient rigidity is impartedto panel 18 whereby the same, when the belt 10 is imposition upon thewearer, may give support to the abdomen of the wearer.

Elastic stretch 14 is secured to` edge 42 of panel 18 by a line ofstitching such as 56 and carries at its outermost free end a pluralityof hooks 58, which hooks are adapted to engage eyes 30 to secure thebelt 10 in place upon the wearers body.

Secured to the lowermost edges of non-extensible section 12 andnon-extensible panel 18 are a pair of loops 60 and 62, respectively,which loops are adapted to receive garters such as 64, which garters 64,when carried by all of loops 60 and 62, may be used in the conventionalmanner to support the stockings of the wearer of belt 10.

As is apparent from theforegoing, belt 10 is adapted to be worn bysecuring the same about the body of the wearer whereby panel 18 willoverliey and support the abdomen of the wearer in a rm manner and pad20, being next to the body ofthe wearer, will give support to the lowerportion of the back of the wearer. It is to be further noted thatpockets 26 of section 12 and pockets 36, 38, 48 and 50 of panel 18 areformed on the faces of section 12 and panel 18, respectively, which arenot in engagement with the body of the wearer, whereby stays 28, 44, 46,52 and 54 may give the necessary and needed rsupport to the wearers bodywithout any discomfort resulting from contact of the stays with the bodyof the wearer. When in the wearing position it will be furtherappreciated that elastic stretches 14 and 16 serve to hold belt 10firmly in position upon the body of the wearer and also to giveadditional support to the waistof the wearer.

As is apparent, there is provided a surgical support, particularlyadapted for use by women, which in a single body encircling belt 10,provides a garter belt which may be used to support the stockings of thewearer and which belt 10 additionally has as a part thereof means forsupporting the abdomen of the wearer as by panel 18, means forsupporting the back of the wearer as by non-extensible `section 12 andpad20 carried thereby, as well as means in the form of elastic stretches14 and 16 for supporting the waist of the wearer in those areas betweenthose contacted by section 12 and panel 18 of belt 10. Thus belt 10 maybe utilized either as a surgical support to support the portions of thebody of the wearer abovementioned, or may also be used as a garter beltif such be desired, it being noted that in any manner of use completeand firm support is given to the body of the wearer.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new and desiredto be secured by Letters Patent is:

1. A surgical support comprising a belt adapted to be worm by the personaround his waist in encircling relationship thereto and including anonextensible back engaging section of generally rectangularconfiguration with the longitudinal length of the back section extendingaround the wearers waist; a nonextensible, abdomen engaging panel ofgenerally rectangular configuration with the longitudinal length of thepanel extending around the wearers waist, of substantially shorterlength than said back section and having terminal ends in spacedrelationship to opposed terminal ends of the back section; elastic bandsinterconnecting opposed ends of the panel and the back section and of alength to cause the panel and bacl; section to tightly engage thewearers waist, said panel being of a width substantially greater thanthe width of the back section and located in disposition with the upperand lower margins thereof above and below the corresponding opposedupper and lower margins of the back section to provide maximum supportto the wearers abdomen only; and a generally elliptical back pad on thecentral portion of the inner face of the back section and normallypositioned to engage the central lower portion of the Wearers back.

2. A surgical support as set forth in claim l wherein said panel isprovided with a plurality of pockets on the outer face thereof,extending substantially transversely of the panel on opposite sides ofthe center thereof, and stays of resilient material in each of saidpockets and ex` tending substantially the full width of the panel.

3. A surgical support as set forth in claim 1 wherein is providedreleasable means connecting one of the bands to the back section tofacilitate emplacement on and removal of the support from the wearerswaist.

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